this is pretty fucked up right here...

GARDEN CITY, N.Y., Jan. 9 - It started unfolding inside a psychiatrist's office in a small brick office building here: one man confided to another that he wanted to kill as many as six people, then drop their dismembered bodies in the Atlantic Ocean, the authorities said today.

But the man who did the confiding, they said, was the psychiatrist, and his confidant was a patient he hoped to enlist in his plan.

Instead, the authorities said, the patient alerted the police, who arrested the psychiatrist, Dr. Richard J. Karpf, on Wednesday, after he tried to buy a gun with a silencer and 50 rounds from a detective posing as an underworld gun dealer.

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